Window-frame construction



May 12,1925.

H. LIPSTREUER wINDow FRAME coNsTRUcTIoN Filed Aug. 20, 1925 'around them.

may be molded and furnished as buildlngA Ptented May 12, 1925.

PATENT 'orrice HERMAN IPSTREUER, OF CLEVELND, OHIO.l

WINDOW-FRAIJIE CGNSTRUCTION.

Application filed August 20, 1923. iSerial No. 658,203.

To aZZ 'whom Vz may conce'm:`

Be it known that I, HERMAN LIPSTREUER, a resident of the city of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,-and a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in iVindow-Framei Constructions, of which the following is a specification. i This invention relates to window frames and the like, and to the means for forming such casings in masonry walls.

In applying the invention to the repairing of old windows where wooden casings have been used, it is seldom found that the upper plate or sill is decayed; water dripping down usually rots the lower plate first, as well as the lower ends of the side members. Under these conditions the lower sill and side members are replaced with eonerete construction and Vthe new upper sill may be used or the old one can be einployed in the manner herein after set forth.

Frames. constructed in accordance with this invention may also be used in new construction work; the frames are 'first molded and then thel masonry wall is constructed The frames for this work material or they may be molded in place in the wall as it is being constructed.

The primary object of this invention is to improve the construction of such casing or frame members and the manner of forming them is a wall. e

Further objects and details of the invention will be disclosed in the aceompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and set fo1'th` in the following description, and claimed.

' In the drawings, like characters of reference are used to Vdesignate the same parts in the three figm'es in which,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a window casing made in accordance with this invention with the masonry wall of a building extending from it, i

Figure 2 is a cross sectional view on line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is an elevation of a wall showing the process of forming such a casing in a finshed wall. l

Referring to the drawings, in Figure 1, a masonry wall 10 is shown around a window frame 11 to Whicha window sash 12 is hinged at 13 so as to swing rearwardly ,upward from the 'upper sill `1a of the frame 11.

The frame 11 comprises an upper sill 14, preferably made of wood, and lower sill 15 and side members 16 formed of concrete having U-Shaped reinforcing rods 17 formed in the conerete members with their ends secured in the upper sill member.-

Each of the side members 16 is formed with an extending tongue 18 which is adapted to be received in grooves 19 in the masonry wall. The inner, or rear side, of all the members as shown in Figure 1, is rabbeted at 20 for the reception of the window sash 12 in the usual manner.

quantities. The wooden upper sill li has the U-shaped rods 17 secured to it and is .placed and seeured in a m'old having correvupper sill 11 with the rods 17 and other form members in the opening for receiving the concrete Vwhich may be poured in from the top. In this case the upper sill can' bo left off until after the concrete is poured and afterwards secured in'place on theuppery ends of the rods 17.

In Figure 3 g frames in an opening in a vwall is shown. The wall 10 having the usual window opening which may have been formed therein during the process of construction or made later, is provided with grooves 19 as here-u tofore set forth. In repairing old windows 1t is sometimes found that the openings are already provided withsuch gi'ooves when the old wooden sides are removed; otherwise they may be formed with mason7s tools. It will here.v be noted that although However, the frames may amethod of molding` Such Preferably, such frames are molded inv the other edges of the openings may be provided with such grooves for tongue members, they are unneeessary and are therefore not shown; the tongues are not needed at the top or bottom of the frame as the side tongues together with the top y.plate are sufficient.

The upper sillll is secured in place in the window opening, or in the case of repairing' of windows the old upper sill maj,v be used again, and merely the side and botftom plates are remored from the opening.

The mold members 21 and are positioned in the opening' beneath the upper sill and the reinforee rods 17 are enelosed in the mold members having' been first placed in position with their upper ends inserted in the sill Ill. The outer edges of the molds remain open at the three sides of the frame and the couerete is paelted into them through these three continuous open edges until they are tilled. lilhen the concrete has set, the molds are removed, and the reinforced frame is complete, having' sides and bottom of cement and its Wooden top plate.

Such frames are especially adapted for window sashes that are to be hinged to the top plate or sill, bnt may, possibly be used when the sashes are to be hingged to one of the side members. rl'he advantage of a frame ha\"ingf one member to which a sash can be l'iinged With the remaining members of reinforeed concrete secnred to the first member Will readily be seen as well as other advantages of the construction and process which has been herein set forth.

This invention is not limited to the embodiments herein before described, and shown in the drawings, for the purpose of giving` examples or illustrations of the employment of the invention, for it will be obvious that Wide departure from the details as set forth may be made without departing from the spirit and scope thereof in the elaims.

What is claimed as the invention and is desired to be secnred by Letters Patentis l. The combination of a masonry Wall having' an opening thercin, a reetangular frame having one side of Wood and the remaining sides of reinforced eonerete positioned in said opening, the reinforeing element extending` beyond the eonerete. and secured in the Wood side and projeetions from said frame structure engaging with the wall for looking the frame in position.

2. A rectangular n'oedcn member forn'iingl one side of the frame, U-shaped reinforcing members havingtheir free ends seeured in the wooden member adjacent to its ends, and eoncrete molded aronnd said rcinforeing members so as to complete the frame forming` the othei sides thereof. i 3. Window casing comprising a frame having a Wooden upper sill member, a U- shaped reinforciirev rod havingl its free ends seeurcd to said `sill adjacent to the ends thereof, side members of eoncrete molded around said reinforcing member engaging` said sill and provided with outwardly projeeting tongue members, and a lower sill of concrete molded around the reinforeing member forming` a continuous integral concrete structure With said side members.

Ll. The method of repairing window easings in a masonry wall comprising the removing of the old lower Wooden sill and side members thereof, seenring reinforcing` rods to the upper sill member of the easing so as to extend through the space oecupi-ed by the members which were removed, and the plaeing of conerete around said rods in engagement With the window opening in the Wall and moldingI the same to form a new easing` member.

5. The method of forming a window casing in a window opening in a masonry Wall eomprising the positioning' of an upper sill member in the opening With a reinforeing member secured thereto so as to extend around the opening in the space to be oeeupied by the side and lower sill members of the easing, and the plaeing of concrete around said reinforcing` member in eng-agement with the Window opening' in the wall and molding the same to form the sid'es and lower sill of the easing.

n testimony Whereof I here'unto afiix my signature.

HERMAN LIPSTREUER.

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